Unemployment rate: 0.7% officially registered; large number of unregistered or underemployed workers (December 1995)
Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
Industries: coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals,
machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food-processing
(especially sugar)
Industrial production growth rate: -11% (1995 est.)
Electricity: capacity: 54,380,000 kW production: 192.1 billion kWh consumption per capita: 3,200 kWh (1995 est.)
Agriculture: grain, sugar beets, vegetables; meat, milk
Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy; mostly for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program; used as transshipment point for illicit drugs to Western Europe
Exports: $11.3 billion (1995)
commodities: coal, electric power, ferrous and nonferrous metals,
chemicals, machinery and transport equipment, grain, meat
partners: other FSU countries, China, Italy, Switzerland
Imports: $10.7 billion (1995)
commodities: energy, machinery and parts, transportation equipment,
chemicals, textiles
partners: other FSU countries, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic
External debt: $8.8 billion (including $4.5 billion to Russia)
(late 1995 est.)